[78-L] Record storage & 2nd floor weight limits

[David Lennick]

Every time I've heard of sturdy shelving being available cheap or free, I've 
grabbed it..Triple A units, solid office shelving, the great wooden units the 
CBC in Edmonton replaced with sliding shelves. I also use U-Haul boxes ON those 
shelves where dividers aren't possible..keeps stuff from falling over, holds up 
the next shelf to keep it from sagging etc. Incidentally, those useless Readers 
Digest box sets come in very handy for holding up shelves midway. All 78s are 
in the basement or in the garage or in the lockups or....

dl

neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com wrote:
> A ton is 2000 pounds, so 1000+ is 1/2 ton.
> 
> Mine are downstairs in what was intended to be a bedroom, which I now 
> call audio archive. LPs & everything vintage, cylinders, tapes, 78s, 
> ETs. The VHS & DVDs are upstairs in the theatre where they would be used.
> 
> joe salerno
> 
> 
> 
> Cary Ginell wrote:
>> All of mine are in two downstairs locations. Most LPs are in a first floor bedroom; the 78s are in a walled-off section of my garage (alarmed, of course), which is on a cement slab that I had carpeted. Since California is earthquake country, all of my shelves are screwed to each other and bolted to studs in the walls with steel angle brackets. The open faces of the 78 shelves have bungee cords hooked across them, so that if there is some shaking, no records will "walk" out of their place and fall on the floor. When I have to listen to a record, I just unhook a bungee cord and replace it when I'm done. The wall would have to fall down for anything to break (we've been told "The Big One" is coming, but so far, all we can do is prepare and hope). The shelving is mostly six feet high.
>>
>> Cary Ginell
>>
>>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com; 78-L at 78online.com
>>> Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 03:37:42 -0500
>>> From: victrola78s at aol.com
>>> Subject: [78-L] Record storage & 2nd floor weight limits
>>>
>>> Just curious about how & where everybody stores parts of their 
>>> collection. I have some of the collection stored upstairs in the loft 
>>> family room. These are mostly Lps(with many 78 reissues) kept in those 
>>> U-Haul "record & book" boxes, turned on their sides & stacked two high 
>>> so that they function as "record shelves". There are 27 boxes each 
>>> weighing about 40 pounds, equaling some 1,080 pounds total. That's a 
>>> TON of music, literally. They are lined up against a wall under the big 
>>> picture windows, spread from one end of the room to the other. This of 
>>> course doesn't include the weight of a sleeper sofa, wing chair & 
>>> entertainment center with AV stuff in it.
>>>
>>>